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Whew, that was a lot to cover in one chapter! Starting from scratch, you used layout files to organize your user interface and Android resources for text, colors, and more. You created Java classes for an activity and a fragment, and you added controls such as buttons and text fields.

Android is a complex system, but you don’t have to know all of it to get started. When you need help, the hundreds of pages of reference material online go into more depth on all the classes and methods used here.

To view the online documentation, open the docs subdirectory of your Android SDK install directory, or point your browser to http://d.android.com. And of course, if you get stuck, you can always drop by the discussion forum for this book. ...

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